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Margaret Faull (born 1946) is an archaeologist and museum director, noted for her work on Anglo-Saxon England and industrial archaeology.

Biography

Faull was born in 1946 and grew up in Sydney. She completed her PhD thesis, 'British survival in Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire', at the Department of Archaeology at the University of Leeds in 1979. Faull worked as an archaeologist for what was at the time the West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council, followed by employment at Thwaite Mills Industrial Museum in Leeds. In 1986, she supported the banning of South African archaeologists from the World Archaeological Congress as part of the Academic boycott of South Africa in opposition to apartheid. She moved to the English National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield in 1987, taking an MA at the University of Sheffield with a thesis on 'The Use by Local Authorities of the Charitable Trust as a Vehicle for Establishing and Operating Museums. Two Case Studies: Caphouse Colliery and Thwaite Mills' in 1990. She went on to become the director of the National Coal Mining Museum, and became a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 4 April 2005. On 27 November 2009 she received an OBE for services to industrial heritage, particularly due to her work at the Coal Mining Museum. She retired from her role as director of the National Coal Mining Museum in October 2015.